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Simba: The King of the Beasts is a 1928 American black-and-white sound documentary film, directed by Martin and Osa Johnson, which features the couple's four-year expedition to track the lion across Kenyan veld to his lair. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film, which went on nationwide general release on January 25, 1928, was premiered at the Earl Carroll Theatre in New York on January 23, 1928. The film entered the public domain on January 1, 2024.